My late grandmother made the best baked spaghetti and her chocolate chip cookies were just amazing. We inherited her recipe scribblings in a notebook but the cookie recipe is incomplete, so we can never get it just perfect. She has only been gone two years so it still makes me a bit sad to think she'll never cook for us again. She was a farm wife and made the biggest and best dinners!

The other side of the family has a recipe for a chocolate pudding which can also be made into chocolate pie. It is to die for! My great aunt makes it every Christmas when we all come back to my grandmother's for the holidays!

We also have a recipe for taverns (sloppy joes) from my great-grandma that never tastes the same when we make it, yet follow the recipe to the letter! The secret is the apple cider vinegar.

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